LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.94 in. (60.80 cm.) (height) by 54.02 in. (137.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Hitchens' (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated 'A Mill and Pool 1960/in possession of the artist/by IVON HITCHENS/Greenleaves./Petworth. Sussex' (on a label attached to the stretcher)

Exhibited:

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Three Masters of Modern British Painting: Ivon Hitchens, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland, June - July 1961, no. 21: this exhibition travelled to Plymouth, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Cheltenham. London, Tate Gallery, Ivon Hitchens: A Retrospective Exhibition, July - August 1963, no. 138; this exhibition travelled to Bradford, Bradford City Art Gallery, August - September 1963; and Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, September - October 1963.

Literature:

A. Bowness (ed.), Ivon Hitchens, London, 1973, no. 181, illustrated.

Provenance:

with Leicester Galleries, London. Howard Bliss, 1961, by whom presented to The Royal Society for the Protection of Animals in North Africa. The Royal Society for the Protection of Animals in North Africa; their sale, Christie's, London, 14 December 1973, lot 259. with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by A. Herbage. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 June 1985, lot 135, where purchased by the present owners.